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...lively seminar with Bickel had "gone flat." Recalls Bork: "When I asked him why, Bickel explained, 'It's because you're not saying those crazy things anymore.' I suddenly realized I'd basically adopted his position." He abandoned his belief that constitutional law could be made to conform to rigid ideological or economic principles. "I gave up trying to find bright lines. They're just not available...
...shaken department. Despite antibusing sentiment in both the Nixon and Ford administrations, for example, Bork pointedly refused to oppose a controversial Boston school-desegregation order. "He was the epitome of an open-minded, principled lawyer," says A. Raymond Randolph, then a Bork aide, "the exact opposite of a rigid ideologue...
...hard to remember that until the 1960s ghettos from Harlem to the South Side of Chicago were beacons of hope for blacks fleeing from the rigid segregation of the Jim Crow South. Jobs -- dirty, low-paying, but regular -- were available in thriving urban industries to anyone with a mind to work and a back strong enough for heavy lifting. Although pernicious, segregation at least compelled a sense of community, with black professionals and businessmen living among those who were far less successful. "These figures served the black community well as visible, concrete symbols of success and moral value, as living...
...that changed with the successes of the civil rights movement. The breakdown of rigid patterns of segregated housing offered middle-class blacks the opportunity to move beyond the ghetto walls. "The most upwardly mobile are the first to leave," explains Walter Williams, professor of economics at George Mason University. "Then the next best, the church members and civic leaders, leave. They are replaced by those who care less. There is cumulative decay...
Like most of the other major televangelists, Falwell is not a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a Washington-based group with 376 members. The council was set up in 1979 to enforce a not terribly rigid ethics code for independent Protestant fund raisers; Billy Graham is a member. The group insists that the boards of its ministries cannot have a majority of family members or insiders and that they must release audited financial statements.Falwell left the organization in 1983.He can at least claim to be responsible to a nine-member board of outside businessmen who serve without...